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Alison Marchione2021-09-23 12:42:302021-11-08 11:46:23Vermont Alpine Farm in Reading Protected ForeverConservation Solutions for
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We provide conservation leadership, tools and expertise to permanently protect the working farms, forested ridges, wildlife habitat, water resources, trails and scenic landscapes that makes the Upper Valley a special place to live. We work with local conservation commissions and volunteer groups to identify and prioritize land conservation opportunities. We provide technical assistance and conservation solutions for landowners. We steward permanent agreements that conserve key properties forever.
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Alison Marchione2021-07-21 18:15:442021-11-08 11:48:06Stonehouse Mountain Protected!Get Involved
We’re a hardworking, homegrown group that depends on people like you. Over the past 34 years, we’ve protected over 500 parcels of land and more than 52,000 acres. Thousands of people have participated in these accomplishments and in the ongoing stewardship of conserved properties. It takes all of us, working together, to choose a vibrant, resilient and sustainable future for the Upper Valley — and to make it happen.
Indigenous People have cared for this land for centuries. The land that the Upper Valley Land Trust owns, conserves, and works on, and the land on which we all live, was first stewarded and cared for by indigenous people of the Abenaki Nation, a tribe of the Wabanaki Confederacy. These are the traditional, ancestral, unceded lands of Abenaki people, taken from them by violence. Current day non-indigenous people have benefited from that violence, and that is a history that we are reckoning with.
Indigenous People are not gone, they live here and are a part of the past, present, and future of our land and our communities. We know this acknowledgement is a small step in a bigger process of greater awareness of Native sovereignty and cultural rights. We honor with gratitude the land itself and the Abenaki people, past and present.
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When Land Steward Micah Tilles was an intern at UVLT in the summer of 2020 he was working on getting to know the 187 acre addition that was being added to UVLT owned Ely Mountain Conservation Area in #Thetford, VT. While digging through the archives about the property, Micah found that 33 acres of the 187 acre addition had once belonged to The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in the 1700s. What does it mean?! Read his essay at the link in our bio.
New post up on our blog today remembering Bob Pulaski. Bob was a 32 year veteran of the Thetford Conservation Commission, who also served on UVLT’s board as its treasurer in the 90’s.
As Steve Lehman, the current chair of the conservation commission, said during his opening remarks of the dedication, “He was the backbone of the commission and was invaluable to new members, sharing his knowledge of the town and its conserved properties, his wisdom and the example that he set for all of us with his integrity and his modesty.”
You can read the whole story of watch a video of the dedication that happened on Sunday at Zebedee Wetland at the link in our bio.
One of our #gamecameras has been picking up tons of bird activity! Here we have an eastern bluebird, a red tailed hawk, and a dark eyed junco.
